March 2006 Quotations

Appreciation can make a day--even  change a life.  Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

-Margaret Cousins

March 2

If Blessed are those who die in the Lord, are they not to be accounted far more Blessed who die for the Lord?

-St. Bernard

March 3

Move not, speak not--look to the pillar of the cloud.  See how it moves, then follow.

-Cardinal John Henry Newman

March  4

Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.  Because of it, the ancients were well attested.  Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witness, let us rid ourselves of every burden & sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us.

-Hebrews 11:1-2; 12:1

March 5

I have no desires for the honors of this world, but solely for the glory of God and the salvation of my soul.

-St Bernardino Realeno

March 6

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

-Stevie Wonder

March 7

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

-Honore de Balzac

March 8

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

-Malcolm Muggeridge

March 9

It was not human beings who accomplished anything here (on the cross); no, God alone did it.  God came to human beings in infinite love.  God judged what is human.  And God granted grace beyond any merit.

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

March 10

Something strange is happening on Earth today, a great silence, and stillness.  The whole Earth keeps silence because the King is asleep.

-Liturgy of the Hours

March 11

Dear Lord, give me the grace to remember that you are ready to embrace me if I am willing to take one step toward you.

-John Cowan

March 12

Don't get discouraged.  I'm close to the brokenhearted, and I specialize in rescuing you when you're crushed in spirit.  Your weakness is the perfect opportunity for my power to shine.  Meanwhile, I give you my all sufficient grace.

-Psalm 34:18:2, 2 Cor 12:9

March 13

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 March 14

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable miracle.

-Walt Whitman

March 15

Life isn't a matter of milestones but moments.

-Rose Kennedy

March 16

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.

-Hebrews 13:2

March 17

Christ beside me,

Christ before me,

Christ behind me,

Christ within me,

Christ beneath me,

Christ above me.

-St Patrick

 March 18

Nothing is voiceless in the world; God hears always in all created things his echo and his praise.

-Angelus Silesius

 March 19

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

-Nelson Mandela

March 20

In his holy flirtation with the world, God often drops a handkerchief.  These handkerchiefs are called saints.

-Frederick Buechner

March 21

I have lost nothing in my life that I could not find again with God.

-Corrine de Winter

March 22

When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

-G.K. Chesteron

March 23

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one sees rightly.  What is essential is invisible to the eye.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 March 24

Jesus is a friend who walks in when the world has walked out.

-Author Unknown

March 25

Disease can be our spiritual flat tires--disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

-Bernie Siegel

March 26

See my hand in everything good and perfect that comes into your life.

-James 1:17

March 27

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

-St. Augustine

March 28

Where you see there is no love, put love and you will get love.

-St John of the Cross

March  29

I'll never stop loving you.  Be assured.  I won't ever abandon you.

-Psalm 138-8

March  30

Life was meant to be lived.  Curiosity must be kept alive.  One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

March 31

Cold word freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful.  Kind words also produce their image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is.  They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

-Blaise Pascual